Improvement in whip-holders



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Patented Oct 31,1871

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JAMES THORNTON AND EMMIT G. LATTA, OF GENESEE, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN WHIP-HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 120,551, dated October 31, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JAMES THORNTON and EMMIT G. LATTA, both of Genesee, in the county of Allegany and State of VNew York, have invented a new and useful Whip-Holder for Oarriages, and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, sufficient to enable those skilled in the art to which our invention appertains to fully understand and to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which the ligure is a perspective view of a whipholder constructed according to our invention and attached to the iron-frame of the flasher.

The subjectof this invention is a socket to be attached to one of the dash-irons of a carriage for holding the whip when not in use. Our object has been to provide a cheap, simple, and durable device, which will hold the whip securely and which will not rattle when the whip is taken out. The invention consists in the construction of the holder, as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

We will now proceed to describe our invention in detail.

Fromthe drawing it will be seen that the holder consists of two parts, A and B, both cast in about the form shown. The part A is concave in transverse section, as shown, and the portions c a are curved outward longitudinally from the central portion a. This central portion a is open at the back, and is formed with lugs which bear against and embrace the dashiron b, as shown. The part B is a semicircular casting, having recessed ends, which receive small lugs i on the sides of the central portion a of the part A. The parts A B are held together and the holder is secured to the flasher-frame by means of a U-shaped binder, c, of stout wire, passing around the partsA B, (the latter as well as the lug i being grooved-to receive it,) and a clampin g-plate, d, adapted to the dasher-iron and lit-ted on thethreaded ends ofthe bin der c, where it is held closely against the iron b by means of nuts, as shown.

We desire to state that instead of securing the holder in the manner described it may be provided with projections to pass through the dasher. The butt end of the whip is simply dropped into the holder, as shown by dotted lines, its weight causing it to Wedge between the ring B and the curved or inclined surfaces a and a of the part A. Thus the whip will be rigidly and seciuely held, while its removal requires but little if any force. Such is the construction of the device that there is no rattling whether the whip be inserted or not, and no movement of the whip when in place.

It should be stated that the inner surface of the ring or part B is rounded, and its outer surface may be ornamented, if desired. The part A should have flaring ends, especially at the top.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A whip-holder, composed of the parts A and B, constructed and arranged substantially as herein described.

To the above specification of our invention we have signed our names this 18th day of May,

E. M. AEMsTRoNG. (31) 

